It was named after the "King of Poland" pub, which was renamed in honour of Poland's King John III Sobieski in the heading of a coalition of western armies, crucially defeated the invading Ottoman forces at the 1683 Battle of Vienna.
The lane that led into the workhouse in now the driveway to Q-Park Soho garage.The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley lived at 15 Poland Street.
[5] The writer Fanny Burney had her childhood home (1760–1770) at 50 Poland Street.
Charles Thomas Bale was a still life painter who worked in London during the second half of the 19th century.
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